Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 3
I think sometimes a lot of what we call mentoring might be appropriately called coaching. Before you go trying to...
2008-04-15
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SQLAndy
Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 2
It's always good to find a book or two on a subject when you want to be good at something....
2008-04-14
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Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 1
Mentoring is something I think a lot of us wish for and that few of us find. Few businesses encourage...
2008-04-13
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Forty Percent Discount on SQL 2008 Exams
Saw this in the MCP Flash today, if you register to be notified when the exams are live you get...
2008-04-11
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How to Improve MS Connect
If you haven't visited yet, MS Connect replaces the old sqlwish email alias and provides - in theory! - a better way...
2008-04-09
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Partitioning Gotcha
Well, it got me at least! Not long ago someone asked me about partitioned views and as I'm apt to...
2008-04-08
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Thoughts on Database Mail
I suspect few would argue that database mail in SQL 2005 is a huge improvement over the mail system in...
2008-04-07
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Link: April Fools Joke on Jonathan Schwarz of Sun
Absolutely worth watching.
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_video
2008-04-07
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After Event Party Location Announced for SQLSaturday#3 in Jacksonville
From the SQLSaturday event site:
AFTER EVENT PARTY ANNOUNCED! Our after event party will be held at 7 Bridges Grille beginning...
2008-04-07
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A Note on sp_updatestats
In SQL 2000 when you run sp_updatestats it's the equivalent of running UPDATE STATISTICS on each table, forcing the update...
2008-04-06
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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